9 Chapter 9.
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Victoria used her pregnancy to get out on medical leave, with a police guard at her
door.
When the detective told me Emily had been pregnant, I wished I was the one lying on that cold slab.
Slowly, I began to lose my sense of direction.
Sarah’s children grew up. When they waved hello to me, the oak tree would creak, as if answering for me.
I waved in Sarah’s direction. Just as my form was about to fade completely, I saw her, tears in her eyes, waving back at me.
“Sarah! Sarah, goodbye! You little rascal, goodbye! It’s time for me to say goodbye, too.” I never thought she was dead. I never imagined the girl I had loved for seven years would truly be gone forever.
Ithought to myself, if I had just said no to Victoria’s ridiculous request, would I be holding my beloved wife right now? Would I have met our unborn child? Would I have taken Emily to the beaches of Hawaii she always dreamed of?
I was a complete and utter bastard. I conspired with outsiders to hurt the person I loved most.
I forgot that she, too, needed to be chosen, just once. I forgot how she had cried to me about the injustice in her family.
Daniel’s POV
But the empty house that greeted me sent me into a blind panic.
That fall, on Emily’s birthday, I stood at her grave.
I loved Emily. But saying that now, the words are nothing but a bitter, hollow joke.
Only then did I learn the truth. The leukemia was fake, but her desire to kill Emily was real.
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I tried to storm the hospital and kill that evil woman myself, but I was caught and detained for months.
But in the corner of my eye, I thought I saw Emily’s ghost.
In the days that followed, Jake and Victoria were arrested.
But I forgot. I forgot that Emily was always the one giving in, always the one making sacrifices.
Ending my life was the only way I knew how to atone for the pain I caused Emily. It was the last and only thing I could do for her.
I finally felt a sense of release. In my own apartment, I swallowed an entire bottle of sleeping pills.
The Daniel who was left was a person who disgusted even me.
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That cold, decomposing corpse in the morgue was my fiancée. She was fine when she left, and now she was gone.
They said Emily would surely understand.
The moment the police called, I kept praying, “Please, don’t let it be Emily. It can’t be her.”
The Daniel who had eyes only for Emily had died with her in that decrepit cabin in Oregon..
But fate is a cruel thing.
That entire trip, no matter how beautiful the scenery or how fine the wine, felt like ashes in my mouth.
In a moment of abysmal weakness, I agreed.
I thought she was just angry with me, that she wanted me to grovel and apologize like I had before. But days turned into weeks, and I heard nothing from her.
Before the engagement party, Victoria and her parents knelt before me, begging me to marry her. They said it would be her last dying wish. They praised my generosity, my decisiveness.
I don’t know how many years I had been dead. My soul was becoming transparent.
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I lowered my head and drew circles on the ground with my ghostly finger.
Life is a cycle. And now, they had all said their goodbyes to me, each in their own way.
But Emily’s parents were still alive. After betraying her, I couldn’t abandon her elderly parents.
The second I saw that familiar lock of her hair, my heart died.
Eventually, they passed away, too.
I decided that as soon as I got home, I would beg Emily for her forgiveness.
“Goodbye, Em! In the next life, let’s be best friends again!”
How desperate must she have felt, having to give up her own fiancé?
My company failed. Not a day went by that I didn’t think about following her.
After that, I was a walking corpse.
Jake’s family took Victoria’s child.
When I was in Napa celebrating with Victoria, she kissed me under the vines.
I will never, ever be able to forgive myself.
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